Plans call for vaccinating all African children against malaria
Children across most of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria.
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Children across most of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria.
The W.H.O. recommends widespread use of the world's first malaria vaccine for children in sub-Saharan Africa.
The WHO has given the green light to the first malaria vaccine. Thousands of people are afflicted by malaria every year in sub Saharan Africa. Young children are especially vulnerable to the disease.
It's also the first vaccine against a parasitic disease in humans. But there are issues to consider, from its rate of effectiveness to the dosage schedule.
The World Health Organization has endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 people a year, mostly African children. The decision followed a review of a pilot program deployed since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in which more than two million…